The Super Solstice is Brian's last chance to get home. He needs to break into the Protector's Henge while Howell performs the incantation to cross worlds, but has to first keep Howell alive and sober.
It's Munty's famous Pear Fair and Brian and Steg get the easy job of guarding an albino pear tree. Barbara must take advantage of an opportunity to join the Seers' Guild. Howell must fix a card game.
Desperate to reach the City of a Thousand Towers before the Super Solstice, Brian ingratiates himself with a company of travelling players who are in town to perform the annual Munty Play.
Brian heads to a trendy, exclusive new bar near Munty docks. He proves a hit with the bar's cool clientele, but are they what they seem? Barbara bumps into an old school-friend who offers her a rare magic object.
Brian is forced to perform in a travelling circus run by the sadistic Feffenhoffer. Barbara and Steg set out to rescue him while Herman accidentally traps a fairy. Stuck on Earth, Howell tries desperately to get back to Munty.
Trapped in a parallel universe, office worker Brian has been locked up and charged with starting the snail wars. Steg persuades him to opt for trial by combat against a terrifying warrior called Radnok.